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liza/src/error/ChainedError.ts

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/**
* Uniform error handling for Liza: error chaining
*
* Copyright (C) 2010-2019 R-T Specialty, LLC.
*
* This file is part of the Liza Data Collection Framework.
*
* liza is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
* published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
* License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
* along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
import { ___Writable } from 'naughty';
/**
* An Error augmented to include information about an underlying cause
*
* To create new chains, use the `chain` function.
*
* Chaining should be used when an error is caught and transformed into
* another, more specific error. By maintaining a reference to an existing
* error, context is not lost, which can be helpful for debugging and
* logging.
*
* Chains may be nested to an arbitrary depth, but because of the nature of
* JavaScript's errors, recursive chain type checks must be done at runtime.
*/
export interface ChainedError<T extends Error = Error> extends Error
{
readonly chain: T,
}
/**
* Type predicate for `ChainedError`
*
* This predicate can be used at runtime to determine whether an error is
* chained.
*
* @param e error object
*
* @return whether `e` is of type ChainedError
*/
export const isChained = ( e: Error ): e is ChainedError =>
( <ChainedError>e ).chain !== undefined;
/**
* Chains two `Error`s
*
* This is intended to be used as if it were a constructor, where the first
* argument is a new `Error` instance.
*
* @param enew new error
* @param eprev error to chain
*
* @return `enew` with `eprev` chained
*/
export function chain( enew: Error, eprev: Error ): ChainedError
{
( <___Writable<ChainedError>>enew ).chain = eprev;
return <ChainedError>enew;
}